What I think Manning did was marvellous, heroic, of great benefit to society and noble. I voted life, as I don't believe in the death penalty. He was military personnel, he knew what he was getting into. Anything less than life for treason would be idiotic in a military court. If he were civillian, it would be a different story. I'm still proud of what he did, but he won't be free. I should add I think he's being held inhumanely, and perhaps should be freed on those grounds.

All of the scenarios in the IPPC AR4 Multi-Model Mean predictions are not calculated as a decadal or centennial number but are calculated monthly. Nobody is averaging any predictions here, they are drawing a statistical trend of observations. The predictions are tracking above reality. Oh, and just so you know, Monckton is a Lord, just not a member of the House of Lords. Try to stick to facts please.

There is someone checking the models, Lucia at the Blackboard. http://rankexploits.com/musings/2011/rss-april-anomaly-up-2/

IPCC AR4 prediction: 0.2 C/decade
Multi-model mean prediction: 0.211 C/decade
Sat. observations: 0.146 C/decade
Ground observations: 0.131 C/decade

So far the predictions are well in excess of observations, but a decade is seen as too small to be significant. We won't really know how wrong the modelling is until 2030 or so.

I'd suggest every minute and 30 seconds respectively so human beings can also participate.

As I said, I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented a blanket ban last year. That's a complete ban on incandescents in my country. I'm pissed off. The one I have inhabits my bedroom, and I need to spend a fortune on immature LED tech now to avoid the mercury bulbs. I have no option left, and it's insulting that I cannot choose for myself. I could legally install a floodlight in my yard tomorrow, but sales of incandescent bulbs are illegal. It makes no sense at all to ban a product that is not harmful in any way, just ineficient, and reflace it with a product that harms the environment through heavy metal pollution. The arguments that coal fired energy makes more mercury are bunk, they don't make that mercury in my fucking kitchen. If we invested in wind, solar, hydro, nuclear etc. there is no fucking mercury anyway. Well, enugh rant, just saying our government has banned these and it's not for the better. They should tax them and use the money to subsidise LED and CFL manufacturing locally, but instead they blindly ban with no afterthought.

So, you're saying the free market is working and adoption is increasing. Yet the ban will screw this guy, and many like him over. I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented this. I have one incandescent left, and will be mourning its passing. I have CFLs, and one has exploded in my kitchen, raining fine shards of glass and heavy metal toxins all over the room. I'm switching to LEDs, but tell me why in a supposedly free country I can't burn the power I pay for using the light source I find safer and better?

I dunno, personnaly I'd ROT13 it twice to be sure.

So in your scenario they plan for an attack. What's the worst an attack could do - I'd venture it's to shut the entire internet down. So at the first sign of attack they will skip straight to the worst-case scenario? Under what conditions would a full scale takedown be less destructive than an attack?

Hell yeah! Now science will be the latest fad with the stamp collecting crowd, bringing us cybergeeks into the spotlight! Finally we get recognition from those cool, trendy, hip & streetwise philatelists!

I know! We'll infest the moat with sharks and crocodiles and poisinous jellyfish and deadly stingrays... oh wait.

Of course this is actual science, experiments don't appear out of thin air, you first ask 'what if?' before you ask 'how?'. He theorises an experiment to test the existence of 'branes in that very interview (something about precise amounts of energy lost in particle accelerator experiments) . Science is more than confirming experiments though, it's coming up with them in the first place. Saying this isn't science is just flat out wrong, what it is not is proof.

You can look at any field of science and find hundreds of dead-ends, some which have lasted thousands of years. Aether and phlogiston are the two prime examples of turfed theories, eugenics, Lysenkoism, plenty of medicine i.e. humours and bloodletting are also well-known, hell even the classical physics you refer to as involate has been shown far from complete by quantum theory, we just haven't worked out how to replace it yet.

You have a point though, new theories must explain what we already know, ie. with Newton being a special case of Einstein we should see Einstein be a case of a unified theory, but it could be that Newton and Einsteins approach is fundamentally wrong and classical physics will be shown the door, just like aether. It's almost inconcievable, but that's how it goes.

This is completley different to the rap/news thing. This movie and book is not the one Assange is going to write but an unauthorised biography from some bloke in Australia. Your regrets are misplaced.

This is not his book. Notice the lack of 'auto' in front of biography? This is by some Aussie hack, Assange has nothing to do with either the book or movie apart from being the subject.